Manuscripts

Life sketch of Margaret Miller DeWitt

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Description: This typescript covers in brief the life of Margaret Miller DeWitt. It describes her mother and sister's disapproval of her conversion to Mormonism, her emigration to the United States to join her sister Jane, and her activities as a Mormon woman.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1949.
Call number: mssHM 66577
Provenance: Gift of Augusta Flake, 3/17/1949.
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Biographical sketch of Kezia Giles Carroll :

Manuscripts

This typescript is a copy made by Juanita Brooks in September of 1938 from a typewritten copy loaned to M. Wilford Poulson of Brigham Young University. The first section is a sketch of the life of Kezia Giles Carroll written by her daughter Emma Seegmiller Higbee. It serves as a biography and covers her conversion to Mormonism in England, describes her voyage from England to Utah, and speaks of her life in Heber City and at Orderville

mssHM 66385

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Biographical sketch of Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner

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This is a typescript copy of a biographical sketch of Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner written by her granddaughter Elsie E. Barrett. Barrett covers her grandmother's life from her early childhood to her settlement in Minersville, Utah in 1863. It describes Lightner's early conversion to Mormonism, which in 1830 came at an early stage in the development of the religion. The subjects covered include persecutions, frontier and pioneer life, and the Haun's Mill Massacre (Mo.), 1838. People discussed in the typescript include Joseph Smith (1805-1844) and Heber Chase Kimball (1801-1868)

mssHM 66419

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A sketch of Silas Harris's life, as written by himself [microform]: c.1880

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Microfilm of a typescript of Silas Harris' autobiography, written in about 1880 and completed by his daughter Sarah F. Cutler sometime after Silas' death in 1897. In the autobiography Silas writes very briefly of his childhood and conversion to Mormonism, his experiences in the Mormon Battalion, his overland travels back to Council Bluffs from California, his return to Utah, his mission work, and notes on his children. The final few paragraphs were written by his daughter Sarah, and contain reminiscences of her father.

MSS MFilm 00132

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Charles Warren Stoddard letters to Dewitt Miller

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This collection contains fifty-two personal letters from Charles Warren Stoddard to Dewitt Miller, an American book collector, lecturer, and critic. Stoddard's letters chiefly contain news about friends, books, and writing. The collection also includes a note from Stoddard to Austin Strong introducing Dewitt Miller, and a letter from Henry J. Stark to Miller communicating Stoddard's death.

mssHM 38365-38418

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Charles Warren Stoddard letters to Dewitt Miller

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mssHM 38365-38418

Life sketch of Simon Baker [microform]: 1952

Manuscripts

Microfilm of the typed life history of Simon Baker by Melba Dolores Hogenson. The brief autobiography traces Baker's childhood, his conversion to Mormonism, the death of his wife and his marriage to Charlotte Leavitt in 1845, his move to Utah, his trade with gold miners in 1849-1850, his various mission and colonization trips in Utah and Nevada, and many notes on his personality and personal anecdotes. The autobiography is preceded by five manuscript pages identified as "journal before 1848" (it is not clear if these pages refer to Baker).

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Life sketch of Margaret Miller DeWitt

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